outlivev.
/ˌaʊtˈlɪv/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈlɪv/ 1.
a. transitive. Esp. of a person: to live longer than (another); to survive. Also: to live longer than (a thing lasts).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (transitive)]
overliveeOE
overbideOE
outlive1472
survive1572
overa1800
1472 Rolls of Parl. VI. 234/2 In cas hereafter it happen You..to outleve our..Sovereigne Lord.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Judges ii. 7 All the daies of the Elders that outlyued Ioshua.
c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. ii. 154 Because it is lykelie..that my uyfe sall outleue me.
1669 Philos. Trans. 1668 (Royal Soc.) 3 887 He dyed, after he had out-lived nine Princes, in the tenth year of the Tenth of them.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 103 Asham'd his Country's Freedom to out-live.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶11 The Senior Member has out-lived the whole Club twice over.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ix. 125 May your cœlestial Majesty out-live the Sun.
1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 61 Many persons outlive such tables, and are desirous to purchase annuities, upon easy terms, for their lives.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 35 I have outlived the kindest and most prince-like of masters.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lvii. 253 He had out-lived nearly all his early friends and foes.
1926 H. Belloc Compan. Wells's Outl. Hist. ii. 24/2 A slightly faster minority of swallows always outlive and outbreed their slower rivals.
1989 P. Lively Passing On xi. 151 Helen will outlive me—women live longer, it seems.
b. transitive. Of a thing: to endure longer than; to outlast.
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > outlast
to live out1535
outlast1570
outwear1579
outlive1582
supervive1586
outflourish1594
to stand out1600
outdure1611
outstanda1616
outsit1633
survive1633
endure1636
stay1639
outmeasure1646
superlast1648
outstaya1652
last1658
tarrya1662
superannuate1820
outrange1887
to see out1897
1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Niiij Honour, in Deathes dispight, outlyueth tyme.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lv. sig. D4 Not marble, nor the guilded monument, Of Princes shall out-liue this powrefull rime.
1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iv. i. 51 When Guilt outlives the Sence of Shame.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 229 The Taliacotian art does not, however, appear to have long outlived its author in Italy.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxvi. 359 I will outlive this danger, and outdie it, if I can.
1865 J. B. Lightfoot Comm. Gal. (1874) 13 The character of a nation even outlives its language.
1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xviii. 212 A hymn older than any creed, and outliving all doubt.
1990 New Scientist 8 Sept. 48/2 Ecology-conscious Americans may be haunted by images of immortal Coke bottles and Big Mac foam ‘clam-shells’ outliving their landfill graves.
2. transitive. To live out, live to an end.
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1563 A. Neville tr. Seneca Lamentable Trag. Œdipus sig. Bvj And so my father Polibus, his happy dayes outlyve.
3. † a. intransitive. To survive. Obsolete.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (intransitive)]
nesteOE
to live forthOE
overliveOE
lastc1225
livec1410
survive1473
supervive1532
subsist?1533
skill1537
to live on1590
outlive1594
(to be) to the front1871
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 132 But when yee haue the honie we desire, Let not this waspe out liue vs both to sting.
b. intransitive. To survive into. rare.
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1902 J. S. Phillimore Sophocles Introd. p. xxviii The new times into which he has outlived.
4.
a. transitive. To live through or beyond (a specified time).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (transitive)] > survive event or point of time
outbear1587
survive1594
outlivec1604
c1604 Charlemagne (1938) v. i. 79 He shall not outlive mydnyght.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 39 Not one will out-live October.
a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 178 in Compl. Wks. (1731) He is sure not to out-live three Days.
1867 F. M. Müller Chips (1880) III. 334 The mammoth..did not outlive the age of bronze.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 780/1 Amana was the strongest in numbers of the few sectarian communities in America which outlived the 19th century.
1991 W. Geldart & D. C. M. Yardley Introd. Eng. Law (ed. 10) If A holds land for 99 years or 999 years..he is still a leaseholder, though it is nearly or quite certain that he will not outlive the term.
b. transitive. To live through or beyond (a certain state or condition); to survive (an experience); to outgrow. Now frequently in negative contexts: to have no longer (a specified, usually desirable, condition or quality).
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > outlast > a state or experience
outlivea1625
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)] > grow out of (a habit, state, etc.)
outgrow1583
outwear1598
overwear1601
outlivea1625
a1625 J. Fletcher Valentinian iii. i. 12 Goe Lucina, and if thou dar'st, out live this wrong.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 63 How many have out-lived their piety.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 199 A Despair of their being able to escape the Infection, or to out-live the Plague.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 13 July (1992) II. 245 They have outlived the age of weakness.
1806 Naval Chron. 15 266 The Montagu having..outlived the hurricane.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 121 It was now his ambition to drive a pair. He had outlived his giggish propensities.
1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 42 The world has outlived much, and will outlive a great deal more.
1899 F. Norris McTeague iii. 42 Zerkow's junk shop was the last abiding-place..of such articles as had outlived their usefulness.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 597 He had transparently outlived his welcome. He ought to have..died.
1983 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 15 July (Arts Suppl.) 20 A ‘survival camp’ whose graduates hope to outlive some ‘disaster’ they think is lurking around the corner.
1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint iii. 169 Jarvik, whose job it is to provide ideological ammo for the new view that public TV has outlived its use.
5. transitive. To excel in (virtuous) living.
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society > morality > virtue > [verb (transitive)] > excel in virtuous living
outlive1676
1676 A. Marvell Compl. Wks. (1875) IV. 155 A good life is a clergyman's best syllogism, and the quaintest oratory; and till they outlive'm they will never get the better of the fanaticks.
1883 Congregational Year Bk. 58 Bishop Burnet gave his clergy the..advice that if they wished Dissent to cease, they must out-live, out-labour, out-preach Dissenters.
1932 W. Axling Kagawa 34 He outprayed them, outloved them,..& outlived them.
Derivatives
outˈlived adj. outgrown; superseded.
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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > outlasting or surviving > having outlasted
outlived1800
1800 C. Lamb Let. 1 Mar. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 188 The prattle of age & out lived importance.
1950 A. de Seversky Air Power (1952) ii. 25 Either we shall continue to divide our national potential three ways to support an outlived triphibious method of war-making, or we shall concentrate it.
outˈliver n. a survivor.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor
overlivera1425
superviver1523
supervivanta1575
outliver1580
remnant1597
relicts1598
surviver1604
survivor1624
survivoressa1711
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Survivant, the outliuer.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 186 The out-liuer becomming a conuert to their religion.
1990 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Nov. Mary..was..an underpinner and ultimately a stoical outliver of her contemporaries and most of her family, for she has died in her native Scotland at the age of 90.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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